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A Short Course in Medical Terminology: Enhanced Reprint
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A Short Course in Medical Terminology: Enhanced ReprintEnhanced Reprint! Designed for self-instruction or classroom use, this quick and easy textbook is ideally suited for one- or two-credit medical terminology courses. The text is brief yet sufficiently comprehensive to give users a sound understanding of terminology. Part One covers the basics of word analysis, word parts, and word building; Part Two focuses on the major body systems. Each chapter includes word tables, review exercises, and illustrations.
 
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Martha Stewart's cookies - The very best treats to bake and to share
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Martha Stewart's cookies - The very best treats to bake and to shareThis is a great book. It has so many unusual recipes with the most beautiful pictures, the only downside is deciding which to make first!
As a warning, each recipe makes LOADS of cookies so it might be worth halving the recipe so you don't end up using all your butter and eggs, or eating the whole lot in one sitting!
I would highly recommend this book to anyone, especially if you need ideas for edible gifts, there's something for everyone and these are not your average cookies :-)
My personal top five:
1.- Cream-filled Chocolate Sanwiches
2.- Lime Meltaways
3.- Chocolate-Almond-Marsala Cookies
4.- Banana-Walnut Chocolate-Chunk Cookies
5.- Pear, Pistachio and Ginger Blondies
 
Embark on a delicious journey of discovery and find your own top five!
 
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Check Your English Vocabulary for Phrasal Verbs and Idioms
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Check Your English Vocabulary for Phrasal Verbs and IdiomsPhrases such as "go with the flow" and "hang around" are easy as pie with this fun and memorable guide to idioms for English-language students. Often a difficult aspect to master in a nonnative language, expressions that cannot be deduced from their individual words become fun to learn with the included word games, quizzes, and puzzles.
 
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Clinical Sociolinguistics (Language in Society)
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Clinical Sociolinguistics (Language in Society)Clinical Sociolinguistics examines how sociolinguistic research paradigms can be applied to assessment, diagnosis and treatment in the clinical situation.
# fills gap in the literature for speech-language pathologists by addressing how sociolinguistic research paradigms can be applied to assessment, diagnosis and treatment in the clinical situation
# collects newly commissioned articles written by top scholars in the field
# includes chapters that outline findings from sociolinguistic research over the last 40 years and point to the relevance of such findings for practicing speech-language pathologists
#  discusses topics including bilingualism, code-switching, language planning, and African-American English
# “Individuals acquire language, and lose it, in a variety of contexts. Gender, geography, socioeconomic status and bilingualism are all relevant to clinical reasoning about speech and language disorders. This timely volume is grounded in state-of-the art sociolinguistic research, but also demonstrates the application of sociolinguistic thinking to the clinical situation. It will be an invaluable text for those professionals faced with linguistically and culturally diverse client groups, and for students and researchers in communication disorders.” Paul Fletcher, University College Cork 
 
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Declining Grammar and Other Essays on the English Vocabulary
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Declining Grammar and Other Essays on the English VocabularyThis book contains 25 essays about English words, and how they are defined, valued, and discussed. The book is divided into four sections. The first section, "Language Lore," examines some of the myths and misconceptions that affect attitudes toward language--and towards English in particular. The second section, "Language Usage," examines some specific questions of meaning and usage. Section 3, "Language Trends," examines some controversial trends in English vocabulary, and some developments too new to have received comment before. The fourth section, "Language Politics," treats several aspects of linguistic politics, from special attempts to deal with the ethnic, religious, or sex-specific elements of vocabulary to the broader issues of language both as a reflection of the public consciousness and the U.S. Constitution and as a refuge for the most private forms of expression.
 
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